February 2019

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NC 9th Congressional District: The man at the center of this entire mess, Leslie McCrae Dowless, has been arrested and charged with three counts of felony obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballots by the Wake County district attorney.

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NC 9th Congressional District: Mark Harris will not run in the new special election, citing health reasons and a surgery in March. Democrat Dan McCready has already announced his intention to run again in the new special election.

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections has voted unanimously for new election in the 9th congressional district after even Mark Harris, who had won and been demanding the election be certified so he could be seated, admitted that public faith in the election is damaged and asked for a new election.

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On the third day of hearings, Mark Harris' son, John Harris, stated that he told his father and campaign manger Andy Yates that he believed there was something "shady" about Dowless after John had poked around in a 2016 election for the 9th district that Dowless had been involved in. This appears to contradict statements by both Mark Harris and Yates that they had observed no red flags regarding Dowless, as do a 2016 email written by Mark Harris that references/jokes about Dowless' suspected misconduct that prior election.

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The first day of hearings into the alleged election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional district (Which is still unfilled due to this mess) lays out a well-orchestrated plan to deceive election personnel with attention to even small details like mailing ballots in small batches from the local post office and the matching pen ink used on forms to avoid arousing the attention of state election officials.

December 2018

As if the North Carolina 9th District election controversy couldn't get weirder, it does. The North Carolina Bipartisan State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, investigating if fraud took place in the November 2018 election has been dissolved by a panel of judges who found it unconstitutional, stemming from an unrelated legal challenge that started in 2016. Further, Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has stated the House will not seat Mark Harris when the new session starts on 3 January, 2019. A new board is expected to start operations on 31 January, 2019.

October 2018

Irony meter hits 12.5 as Trump calls for more civility in politics. "Those engaged in political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective," he said."No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historic villains, which is done often," he added. Seriously??